physorg — (PhysOrg.com) -- Challenges of the future include energy use and continued population growth. And, while there are millions of square miles of land available in the world, not all of it is considered fit for human habitation. Shimizu Corporation, the company contemplating the Luna Ring, has another interesting project in...
physorg — (AP) -- Jeff Bezos isn't just confident you'll want a Kindle e-book reader. The CEO of Amazon.com is bracing for a future in which you'll also want ones for your kid heading to college, your spouse in a book club and perhaps even Grandpa.
blogs.discovermagazine — This morning we got up much too early to drive out to hill country in order to collect switchgrass. It was a hot, sunny, and muddy morning, but mission accomplished! On the ride home, we noticed thousands of baby spiders crawling around the back seat. Fortunately it wasn’t my car. Now...
blogs.discovermagazine — Beware death from above! So blared science headlines yesterday. Citing a study in the Journal Icarus that said a huge asteroid perhaps could have a 1 in 1,000 shot of striking earth late in the next century, stories broke such as, “Will a Giant Asteroid Kill Us All in 2182?” “Asteroid Could...
news.discovery — Researchers study how folds and other creases disappear in studies that could shed light on how human tissue folds and grows.
blogs.discovermagazine — [This is my third post of Sex Week] Here’s a song for the male water strider, from the days when Rod Stewart could do no wrong: In my first two posts for Sex Week, I wrote about the delights of courtship: the alluring, informative fragrance of yeast and the seductive buzz...
news.discovery — The Army is working on autonomous snake robots that can go on search-and-rescue missions.
physorg — (AP) -- Scientists from around the world are providing even more evidence of global warming, one day after President Barack Obama renewed his call for climate legislation.
blogs.nature — SUMMARY: This is an easy bird to ID, but I want my beginning birders to have a chance to identify some birds too (and I want to give casual onlookers a visual thrill). Here’s a question for you experts: This lovely species was once lumped together with another species —...
news.discovery — Online avatars say a lot about the personality of their creators. For better or worse.
blogs.discovermagazine — Every now and then, I get an email from someone who’s keen to get into science writing and wants to know how I started. Whenever I reply, and I always try to, I’m always left with the nagging feeling that my experience is but one of a multitude of routes...
news.discovery — After five years of drilling to find clues to a past climate warming, scientists finally hit bedrock in Greenland some 1.6 miles down.
blogs.discovermagazine — I never get tired of the stunning pictures being sent to Earth from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. This one is particularly cool: It’s a little weird, isn’t it? What you’re seeing is sunset over some mountains on the Moon, with only the peaks popping up into the sunlight. It might help...
physorg — (PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft has unveiled "Street Slide," which gives viewers 360-degree multi-perspective panoramas ("bubbles") of a city streetscape. The system should rival Google's Street View and Bing Maps' Streetside.
physorg — (PhysOrg.com) -- A significant breakthrough spearheaded by University of Queensland, Canadian and Austrian researchers is featured in the latest issue of the journal Nature.
physorg — Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation. With further observation, however, one in three of these systems have been found to have two or more planets. Planets, it appears, come in...
news.discovery — Drugs and vaccines could one day make their way into your body at the speed of light.
blogs.discovermagazine — Over my lifetime in the United States there has been a shift toward a set of values which emphasize diversity, understood as being expressed along a few particular parameters: racial, sexual and ethnic. Part of the project is obviously concrete. Increased representation of various segments within American society at the...
physorg — Robotic wheelchairs, mechanical arms and humanoid waiters are among the cutting-edge inventions on show at a robotics fair in Japan, a country whose population is ageing rapidly.
dailygalaxy — A new study has found that spacequakes, like an earthquake in space, are temblors in Earth's magnetic field caused by plasma flying off the sun that could help generate the colorful auroras that dance high in Earth's atmosphere. While felt...
physorg — U.S., German and Austrian physicists studying the perplexing class of materials that includes high-temperature superconductors are reporting this week the unexpected discovery of a simple "scaling" behavior in the electronic excitations measured in a related material. The experiments, which were conducted on magnetic heavy-fermion metals, offer direct evidence of the...
npr — Many people are uncomfortable with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation so they don't attempt CPR at all. Two big studies show that a streamlined, hands-only CPR method could be just as good. Experts hope the findings will get more bystanders to try CPR -- and, in the end, save more lives.» E-Mail This ...
physorg — (PhysOrg.com) -- By suggesting that mass, time, and length can be converted into one another as the universe evolves, Wun-Yi Shu has proposed a new class of cosmological models that may fit observations of the universe better than the current big bang model. What this means specifically is that the...